The Christian Authors Network’s innovative Crown Awards celebrate excellence in Christian Media and Marketing. Purpose: To recognize, educate, and…
February 18, 2020
“Ah! I’ve had too many sales!” said no author ever. The truth is, sales are directly tied to what…
February 12, 2020
A New Year always brings a chance to start over and begin in a new direction. This year (2020)…
January 25, 2020
In my last article, I introduced the idea of an author creating a brand personality and outlined three ways…
January 12, 2020
We’ve written the book, isn’t that enough? Now they want us to write a query, a pitch, a proposal,…
December 25, 2019
From my experience in publishing, editors and agents are often slow to respond to submissions. This time lag…
November 25, 2019
A few days ago, my wife returned from the grocery store with two different brands of coffee: Lavazza and…
November 12, 2019
Indie authors often want to know how to build a writing brand. There are actually two sides of being…
October 12, 2019
I wrote about fifty books with traditional publishers, including two proposals that got six figure advances—before I began working…
July 25, 2019
The tension hung in the air so thick it felt like you could cut it with a knife. I…
May 25, 2019
Cherrilynn Bisbano is an award-winning writer. She founded The Write Proposal after reading hundreds of book proposals with avoidable…
April 25, 2019
When writers take personality tests, the majority are introverts. They prefer to write more articles or books instead of…
February 25, 2019
We all know how important Amazon when it comes to selling our books. Perhaps we don’t know just how…
February 10, 2019
“What’s the difference between a fiction book proposal and non-fiction?” “Do I need the illustrations when I submit my…
January 25, 2019
If you are an author, a human being writing for other human beings, you have been blessed with a…
January 12, 2019
In October, we discussed keywords. There are two main goals when selecting your seven keywords: 1) to find words…
January 10, 2019
In the rush to show a literary agent or editor your idea, many writers forget a simple yet important…
December 25, 2018
I don’t think many authors have a clue about how rugged the economic terrain is for the average publishing…
December 12, 2018
I recently read some advice to self-published authors, to the effect that Lulu offers their clients a “free” ISBN—but…
November 12, 2018
“Can I really compare my book with a bestselling author’s book?” “Why do I need this? Won’t I shine…
October 25, 2018
There seem to be plenty of people out there who have never published anything, but are happy to give…
October 12, 2018
Last month we talked about categories. Now we’re going to dig into the other side of the metadata equation:…
October 10, 2018
No, agents and editors are not sadists. We do not ask you to write an extensive book proposal to…
September 30, 2018
I recently finished making wording changes on a self-published book that had already been typeset and printed — or…
September 12, 2018
What is Metadata? Metadata is the information you give to Amazon (or other distributors) that instructs them on where…
September 10, 2018
